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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Quantum nanophotonics with nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond

Yiwen Chu, Nathalie P. de Leon, Ruffin E. Evans, Birgit Hausmann, Brendan Shields, Michael J. Burek, Matthew Markham, Alastair D. Stacey, Daniel J. Twitchen, Hongkun Park, Marko Lončar, Mikhail D. Lukin

Published Jun 6, 2013• 0 citations
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